The part that I think may be the problem, is simply because my clock is coded to be positioned outside of the normal Conky window boundaries. This works fine when Conky isn't in its own window, however it disappears when it does have its own window 'cause there's no longer the entire desktop's worth of space to draw to.

All I want is to be able to see my desktop icons, and my clock where it is, at the same time. Is there some way I can finagle with this to make it work that way?

Just add another line to the startup script before exit pointing to the .conkyrc that will start it.

You already have the "background yes" option in your file, so you don't need to use the -d switch. Use the -c switch to point to a config file other than ~/.conkyrc. For example, I keep all my .conkyrc's and related scripts in a folder ~/Conky. To start them all, my startup script (also located in ~/Conky) looks something like:

Alright, I've got them in seperate .conkyrc files now. The main one works fine, although the bottom of the weather cloud was cut off at the bottom so I added an extra like (just pressed enter xD) at the bottom of the file and that fixed that problem.

But my clock isn't showing up. The instance of conky is loaded, however, 'cause stuff disappears when I drag desktop icons under the edge of it. But the clock is no where to be found. ._.

optimize me wrote:Run that conky from a terminal, by itself, and show me the output.

I don't have the clock script or the font installed, so I can't test it for you.

The output was as normal as any other conky output, it was just disappearing behind invisible walls.I actually fixed it just now =D I had to take off the "goto" commands and replace them with horizontal offset commands of the same relative distance from eachother. (23, 23, 30, and 50, respectively.)

Thanks so much for your help :3 if not for the script you gave me for the startup thing, I would've just dealt with my desktop items blinking in and out of existence as I hover past them xD